And furthermore, just because Rex Ryan is too proud to bench Sanchez doesn't mean anything. Cassel sucks the same amount whether Romeo decided to finally bench him or if he would have kept trotting his sorry ass out there.

The fact that Romeo finally yanked him and Rex hasn't yanked Sanchez yet isn't any kind of a barometer.

Yes, but at least a precedent would have been set, i.e., a first rounder drafted in an attempt to secure a franchise QB.

Four years later and we're still waiting for that to happen.

Check that.

29 years.

My take on this is a little different than most here.

I'm ALL FOR taking a QB in the first round. However, doing so doesn't come without the most major of risks. If you take a guy and he's a Jamarcus Russell or a David Carr or a Mark Sanchez, you can set your team back years and years. Then you draft another guy........and it possibly happens again. What I'm saying is, we could have been drafting first round QB's all this time, and be in the exact same boat.

On the flip side, it's ****ing hard to get my head around the fact that we haven't drafted a first round QB in 29 ****ing years.

That's like getting the clap when you lose your virginity then swearing off pussy forever. It makes no sense.

I'm ALL FOR taking a QB in the first round. However, doing so doesn't come without the most major of risks. If you take a guy and he's a Jamarcus Russell or a David Carr or a Mark Sanchez, you can set your team back years and years. Then you draft another guy........and it possibly happens again. What I'm saying is, we could have been drafting first round QB's all this time, and be in the exact same boat.

On the flip side, it's ****ing hard to get my head around the fact that we haven't drafted a first round QB in 29 ****ing years.

That's like getting the clap when you lose your virginity then swearing off pussy forever. It makes no sense.

IMO, that's not really true anymore with the new rookie salary structure. Look at the Jaguars and Blaine Gabbert. They whiffed on him, but unless there's some enormous turn-around, they're going to be in a position to draft a new guy this year. Whether or not they actually do is up to them, but they're certainly capable of it.

Yep; even as shitty as Snatchez has been, he's STILL the starter for the Jets.

I have to admit, I love that one...

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"He had no teeth, and he was slobbering all over himself. I'm thinking, 'You can have your money back, just get me out of here. Let me go be an accountant." I can't tell you how badly I wanted out of there."Denver rookie QB John Elway, on Jack Lambert, after Lambert and the Steelers knocked Elway out of his first game as a pro (1983).

IMO, that's not really true anymore with the new rookie salary structure. Look at the Jaguars and Blaine Gabbert. They whiffed on him, but unless there's some enormous turn-around, they're going to be in a position to draft a new guy this year. Whether or not they actually do is up to them, but they're certainly capable of it.

Now this is true. I guess I'm still thinking with the old cap structure in mind.

Taking a QB first round used to could really cripple your franchise for a long time if he did not pan out because you were handcuffed to him because of money.

I mean look at Alex Smith. He still sucks (I can't believe people think he doesn't) but he's still there playing game manager for a great defense because of the money invested in him.

You're still left with the issue of how long do you let a guy play to develop, and when do you bench him or draft a new guy. That is still an issue.

And just as an I told you so to all the people that argued with me for 2 years about Snatchez.......he ****ing blows and I told you so. He's been the reason that team never reached the SB.